{"id":8849,"date":"2016-12-17T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8849"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T22:48:19","slug":"whats-under-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8849","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Under the Tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-wrapped gifts are essential, or her little darling will pitch a fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She shoulders the door open, her arms stretched around sparkling presents, hoping this will be the last gift run of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She hears a tiny voice singing by the fir tree, plucking each word, \u201cYou better watch out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unloading her packages on the floor, she glances at her blotchy-faced, wild-eyed child, whose ruddy fingers like tentacles clutch the nearest branch, corrupting the evergreen with an insatiable, yellowing appetite, as the little darling jabs at gifts with a candy cane, shaking the tree with each word\u2014mine, mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/isawlightningfall.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/advent-ghosts-2016-stories.html\">Advent Ghost Story Fest<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-wrapped gifts are essential, or her little darling will pitch a fit. She shoulders the door open, her arms stretched around sparkling presents, hoping this will be the last gift run of the year. She hears a tiny voice singing by the fir tree, plucking each word, \u201cYou better watch out.\u201d Unloading her packages on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8849\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s Under the Tree?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,1064],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","tag-advent-ghost-stories","tag-ghosts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14890,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions\/14890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}